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by lpapez 5y ago
The first thing that needs to be done in this situation is to stop working overtime. By working overtime and completing everything that needs to be done you are sending the message "yes, everything is fine, we got this". If you st
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One of my friends said: "In this market good people can choose where they want to work, but even the bad ones can choose where they don't want to work"
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by lpapez 5y ago
That is because the languages are different and choose different tradeoffs. The tradeoffs might make a language inapplicable in your domain. Rust has always been marketed as a "systems programming language". C++ is Rust's clo
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by lpapez 5y ago
I work in such an environment. My advice is to: 1. push for tooling such as linters, formatters, static analysis etc. which reduces ambiguity and discussion based on personal preferences. These tools also help prevent any nitpicking comment
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I repeat these exact same words on each retrospective of my new scrum team with 16 people. The amount of overhead is insane and I've simply started not showing up to some meetings and just asking for conclusions. Usually, there aren&#x
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I work at one such company. The amount of resources thrown into X is disturbing, and any attempts to discuss benchmarking changes so that the useleness of X can be revealed are shut down aggresively.
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by lpapez 5y ago
I got this exact same model today. Never gonna connect it to wifi anyway, seemed perfect.
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by lpapez 5y ago
Cant you just get a smart TV and never connect it to wifi?
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by lpapez 5y ago
Well, you proposed converting SQL architecture to NoSQL with the goal of adding caching. So how would you add caching in the NoSQL case? What prevents you from doing the same with SQL?
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by lpapez 5y ago
Why not simply add caching to the existing SQL solution?
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Multiple tabs of videos playing on 4x speed. We did speedrunning contests on these mandatory training videos in my previous company. Good times.
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by lpapez 5y ago
I did AoC2020 with C++ and did it in a enterprise, over-the-top, well-structured way. E.g. need to find two items whose prices sum up to 123? Implement a multidimensional knapsack just in case you need it later (spoiler: I did need it). If
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by lpapez 5y ago
Geniuenly curious, what downsides do you see with a single, reference implementation? I come from C++ world where we have several competing compilers, each slightly different from the other, and all this incurs a non-negligible maintenance
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by lpapez 5y ago
So why should I care about it?
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C++ has a standard that is thousands of pages long and I needed to look something up in it exactly zero times. On the other hand, I encountered hundreds of segfaults and race conditions and unlike Rust the well defined C++ language did noth
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by lpapez 5y ago
From my anectodal experience latest GCC tends to be sligthly/noticeably faster than Clang when compiling C++. I predict the same for Rust - slightly faster but still slow overall since its such a complex language.
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by lpapez 5y ago
My programming teacher told me: "operator precedence is complicated, always use parenthesis if you have multiple operators in a single expression". I simply do that, and nobody complained so far :)
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by lpapez 5y ago
Was it really Python's fault? Version 2 was deprecated for a decade basically, and any sensible company invested the time to migrate.
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by lpapez 5y ago
6 years college minimum. Mandatory one year of general practice and then you can apply for specialist education. Specialization can then take years to begin, but it can also start right away depending how lucky you are and you do it for fiv
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Nope, Eastern Europe. We both got pretty good education (even got to study abroad for a few semesters) and it was free for both of us, but her annual pay is around 30k$ while mine is around 35k$ (the median wage is about 15k$). Its really e
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Unrelated question. My girlfriend is an anesthesiologist and she is quite distraught with the fact that she is being payed less than me for working significantly more hours on a job with vastly more responsibility and risk (I work on embedd
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by lpapez 5y ago
Usually on interviews it is not actual proving in any mathematical sort of way. It's more like: " I am calling sort() in a loop so obviously this is O(n^2 * log n) complexity " and then the interviewer nods in approval and yo
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I tried querying it about the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow and it answered "0 km/h". Still needs some work I guess :)
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A simple solution would be to introduce two new types: ConcurrentThread and ParallelThread. Alias the old Thread to the ConcurrentThread and keep the behaviour. No breaking changes, easy to explain the differrence. People who need it can us
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by lpapez 5y ago
And what will you do after lunch? :)
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Its much easier to sell the future if you portrait it as "autonomous pods for everyone" instead of "trains everywhere", even though the latter is vastly more efficient, simpler, cheaper and eco-friendly. As usual, conven
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by lpapez 5y ago
Same thing here. With LeetCode or AdventOfCode problems its usually simple "write test submit celebrate". With real world problems its usually like: try to reproduce a vague customer crash/fail report, have several meetings o
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Well-off people are usually quick to criticize the decisions of "the poor", but they rarely understand the context. For example, why do poor people stand in line for a new iPhone just to sell it immediately upon exiting the store
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Depends a lot on the social status I think. Growing up in a poor household, we never worried about gas prices. When the salary came, we would buy 200HRK worth of petrol and use the car as long as it had petrol. After that, you walk. It was
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If besides best possible performance you also value ergonomics, security, maturity and tooling then IMO nothing comes close to C++, especially C++17 and later. Not that there is much choice really, only C and Rust can realistically get you

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